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Biography/English/ Anna Selina Storace |
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Written by Richard
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Tuesday, 04 April 2006 |
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Anna Selina Storace (1766–August 24, 1817) was an English singer. She was born in London in 1766, completed her education at Venice under Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini,
sang for Mozart at Vienna, and first appeared at the King's Theatre in London in 1787. After contributing greatly to the success of her brother Stephen Storace's The Haunted Tower and his later operas, she crowned a long and brilliant career by winning laurels from at the Handel Commemoration. At Westminster Abbey in 1791, she retired from public life in 1808, and died on August 24, 1817. During her stay in Vienna she married John Abraham Fisher, a celebrated violinist; but he used her so cruelly that she refused to bear his name, and in her will —bequeathing property to the amount of £50,000 — styled herself a "spinster." |
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